5th October 2008
Mont Chevreuil is an abandoned ski station near to Château-d’Oex and was once on the same lift pass. The lift runs up from Rossiniere, or used to as it’s not run all the time I’ve lived here despite what some UK ski web sites appear to think according to their “in depth” guides to Château-d’Oex. Anyway, we had left the car in the Col des Mosses at La Lecherette and walked in to Mont Chevreuil from there. It’s a great time of year for walking and the conditions alter so much, earlier in the week I was in shirtsleeves enjoying the sunshine in Kandersteg and today we’re in early season snow. We’d thrown snow chains and snow shoes into the car as a precaution but didn’t really need them. You could have snow shoed at the top and the higher parts of the descent would have been fun but there’s not enough snow yet to need this kind of kit.
Read the rest of this entry »
Article Tags>> Col Des Mosses | Hiking | hiking in Switzerland | La Lecherette | Mont Chevreuil | trekking | trekking in Switzerland | walking | walking in Switzerland.
Posted in Hiking, La Lecherette | 1 Comment »
16th June 2008
L’Etivaz is a small village on the on the col des Mosses and famed for it’s cheese. They make the cheese up at the alpages which are high altitude milking parlours, farmers spend the summer up at these alpages and you’ll find them every few kilometres. The cheese is then matured in caves down in the valley for around seven months. There’s a shop in the village that’s open on a Sunday so we didn’t take a sandwich with us, instead we bought some L’Etivaz cheese and some bread to make a picnic.
Our route was to follow the L’Eau Froide stream up the valley climbing up around 1900m. From there we would drop down into the valley of the Torneresse and back to L’Etivaz.
Read the rest of this entry »
Article Tags>> Col Des Mosses | Hiking | hiking in Switzerland | L'Etivaz | trekking | trekking in Switzerland | walking in Switzerland.
Posted in Hiking, L'Etivaz | No Comments »
Mont Chevreuil is an abandoned ski station near to Château-d’Oex and was once on the same lift pass. The lift runs up from Rossiniere, or used to as it’s not run all the time I’ve lived here despite what some UK ski web sites appear to think according to their “in depth” guides to Château-d’Oex. Anyway, we had left the car in the Col des Mosses at La Lecherette and walked in to Mont Chevreuil from there. It’s a great time of year for walking and the conditions alter so much, earlier in the week I was in shirtsleeves enjoying the sunshine in Kandersteg and today we’re in early season snow. We’d thrown snow chains and snow shoes into the car as a precaution but didn’t really need them. You could have snow shoed at the top and the higher parts of the descent would have been fun but there’s not enough snow yet to need this kind of kit.
